We build it. Recertify it. Restore it.
One licensed general contractor for the whole life of a South Florida building — ground-up construction, 40-year recertification, and structural restoration. We self-perform and coordinate the trades that decide the outcome: roofing, waterproofing, MEP, and structure — plus engineering, permitting, and capital planning.
Eight in-house Florida licenses. One operator.
Every credential below is verifiable in thirty seconds on MyFloridaLicense.com. We prefer it that way.
A building that can’t pass inspection, secure insurance, or satisfy lenders is economically unstable — regardless of how it looks. Every scope we execute is engineered to protect those three outcomes.
What we do
One operator. The whole building, the whole lifecycle.
Eight in-house Florida licenses under one general contractor — so the same team that builds it can recertify it and restore it. No handoffs, no finger-pointing, one point of accountability.
Build
Ground-up construction, development, and custom residential — permitted and self-performed end to end.
Custom & ground-up →Recertify
40-year & 50-year recertification, Milestone inspection and SIRS compliance — from the engineer’s report to the stamped re-inspection.
Recertification →Restore
Structural restoration, concrete & rebar, waterproofing, and façade — the repairs that keep a building insurable and standing.
Restoration →Self-performed, in-house
Every trade that touches the building — not subcontracted out.
Roofing
HVHZ re-roof and repair, Miami-Dade NOA / TAS-compliant assemblies — its own Florida roofing license.
Roofing →Mechanical / HVAC
Rooftop and split-system replacement, salt-air coil corrosion, and controls — its own Florida air-conditioning license.
Mechanical / HVAC →Electrical
Main service upgrades, risers, panels, and life-safety power — its own Florida electrical license.
Electrical →Plumbing
Riser replacement, repipes, and domestic water and drainage — its own Florida plumbing license.
Plumbing →Structure & concrete
Spall and rebar repair, post-tension, structural strengthening.
Structural restoration →Waterproofing & envelope
Coatings, sealants, and façade — the water-intrusion line of defense.
Waterproofing →Solar & energy
Licensed solar and home-performance scopes.
Solar & energy →Pools & hardscape
Commercial and residential pools and spas, plus decks and paver hardscape — a Certified Pool/Spa Contractor license, with the deck and structural scope held by the same general contractor.
Pools & hardscape →Eight in-house Florida licenses · Self-perform · Miami-Dade · Broward · Palm Beach
Most South Florida buildings are underprepared.
Structural aging, deferred maintenance, recertification deadlines, insurance pullbacks, MEP obsolescence, and reserve realities are converging at the same time. The aftermath of Surfside and SB-4D didn’t create these problems — it exposed them.
What buildings need now is not another contractor. It’s a coordinator who can translate engineer reports, inspection findings, and reserve studies into executable scopes, phased budgets, realistic schedules, and long-term capital plans.
One operator. End to end.
Engineer reports become scope.
30-year findings, milestone inspections, and SIRS reports converted to quantified, biddable scope documents with realistic unit costs and validated budgets.
In-house licenses eliminate fragmentation.
General Contracting, Roofing, Pool/Spa, Plumbing, HVAC, Electrical, and Solar — all held in-house. One team, one schedule, one accountability line.
Insurability is the constraint.
Insurance, lender, and recertification implications are designed into every scope from day one. Documentation that satisfies carriers, inspectors, and questionnaires.
Active South Florida projects
Not marketing. Field reports.
Short technical breakdowns on recertification timing, waterproofing failures, SIRS strategy, insurance pressure, and capital planning — recorded from active projects and current Florida market reality.
View the Insights Hub →“Four elements, one order. That is the whole of the work.”
Academia — the fifth element that orders the four
Your building has a clock on it. We can read it.
Send us the engineer report, the inspection findings, or just the questions. We respond within one business day.
Request a Building AssessmentCommon questions
What does Academia Development actually do?
One licensed operator carries a South Florida building across its whole lifecycle: ground-up construction, 25/30/40/50-year recertification, milestone and SIRS work, structural restoration and waterproofing, roofing, MEP, pools and hardscape. The point of holding the licenses in-house is that the same company that builds it can recertify and restore it.
Which Florida licenses does Academia hold?
Eight, all in-house: general contractor, roofing, pool/spa, plumbing, air conditioning, electrical, solar, and a real-estate broker license. Every number is published on the site and verifiable in about thirty seconds at MyFloridaLicense.com. We publish them because a license claim you cannot check is not a credential.
Do you subcontract the trades out?
No. The trades are self-performed under Academia's own licenses on one schedule. That matters most at the seams — where a rooftop unit needs a new curb, or a repipe needs demolition and restoration — because those are the handoffs where a subcontracted job stalls and the owner becomes the project manager.
What counties do you work in?
Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Miami-Dade and Broward are the High Velocity Hurricane Zone, which changes wind design, product approval and permitting on almost every exterior scope, so it is not a market you can serve competently from outside it.
Our building got a recertification or milestone notice. What now?
Send us the notice and the engineer's report. You will get a written scope that separates what the county actually requires from what is merely recommended, before there is a number attached to it. What each program covers differs — recertification reaches structural and electrical, the milestone inspection is structural — so the first job is reading which obligation you actually have.
Do you work with homeowners, or only with condominium boards?
Both. Boards and property managers bring recertification, milestone, restoration and capital work. Homeowners bring custom residential, roofing, MEP, pools and improvement work. The licensing that serves a 12-story building is the same licensing that serves a house.